SCIENTISTSAND 8.

Temin and Baltimore:

THEIR Reverse transcription.
CONTRIBUTIONS: 9. Jacob, Monad and

1. Oparin: Coacervates, Lwoff: proposed Lac

Conditions on primitive operon.
earth were favourable 10. Watson and Crick:

for chemical evolution Structure of DNA

2. Stanley Miller & 11. Nirenberg and

Harold Urey: Khorana: Genetic code

Recreated probable 12. Benzer: Cistron, recon,

conditions on primitive muton

earth 13. Gregor Mendel: Father

3. Ernst Haeckel: of genetics

Proposed the 14. Sutton and Boveri:

recapitulation theory Chromosomal theory of

4. Charles Darwin: inheritance
Natural Selection 15. Hugo de Vries,

5. Hugo de Vries: Correns and

Mutation Tschermack:
6. T. R. Malthus: Theory
Rediscovered Mendelism
of Human Population 16. T H Morgan: Linkage

Growth/ Essays on 17. P Maheshwari: Plant

population tissue culture

7. Alec Jeffreys: DNA

finger printing
18. Henking: Discovered X- phosphorylase
chromosome 27. Wallace: divided the

19. F. Meischer: Isolated Earth into

nucleic acid from pus biogeographical regions
cells, called Nuclein 28. M S Swaminathan:

20. Chargaff: Rule of Green revolution in India

equivalence in DNA 29. H Boyer: discovered
structure Restriction Enzyme
21. F. Griffith: 30. S Cohen: method to

Transformation in transfer plasmid DNA

bacteria in host cells
22. Avery, MacLeod and 31. R. Mishra: Father of
McCarty: DNA is the Indian Ecology
genetic material 32. E. Wilson: coined the

23. Hershey and Chase: term Biodiversity

DNA is the genetic 33. P Ehrlich: Rivet Popper
material Hypothesis
24. Meselson and Stahl:
34. Sanger: DNA/Protein
Semi-conservative sequencing
replication of DNA
25. G. Gamow: Triplet

nature of codons
26. S Ochoa:
discovered
polynucleotide
LIST OF Acid
11. IMR- Infant Mortality
ABBREVIATIONS
Rate
TO BE STUDIED
12. ICSI - Intra
1. ADA- Adenosine Cytoplasmic Sperm
Deaminase Injection
2. CMI- Cell Mediated
13. IUCD/IUD – Intra
Immunity uterine contraceptive
3. DFC- Detritus Food device
Chain 14. IUCN- International
4. EFB- European Union for
Federation of Conservation of Nature
Biotechnology and Natural Resources
5. EST- Expressed
15. IUI- Intra Uterine
Sequence Tags Insemination
6. ET- Embryo Transfer

7. GFC- Grazing Food

Chain
8. GMO- Genetically

Modified Organism
9. GPP- Gross Primary

Productivity
10. hnRNA -

Heterogeneous
Nuclear Ribo Nucleic
16. IUT- Intra Uterine Transfer
17. LAB- Lactic Acid Bacteria

18. MALT- Mucosal Associated Lymphoid Tissue

19. MMR- Maternal Mortality Rate

20. NACO- National AIDS Control Organisation

21. NPP- Net Primary Productivity

22. PID- Pelvic Inflammatory Diseases

23. PKU- Phenyl ketonuria

24. RCH- Reproductive

and Child Health Care

Programmes
25. SCID – Severe Combined Immuno Deficiency

26. SNPs - Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

27. snRNA- Small Nuclear Ribo Nucleic Acid

28. sRNA - Soluble Ribo Nucleic Acid

29. SSBP – Single Strand Binding Protein

30. UTR - Untranslated Region

31. VNTRs - Variable Number of Tandem Repeats